News Around the Net!
Let’s start with our first look at The Mandalorian season two!!
I am super-excited!! We don’t have long to wait…
I am also over-the-moon excited by this magnificent first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation:
That is a gorgeous trailer. The visuals are every bit as epic and weird as I’d have hoped. The cast they’ve assembled is extraordinary. The sandworm looks amazing. I am pumped!! I deeply love Dune, and I am incredibly excited for what I hope will be a faithful adaptation of Brian Herbert’s novel. I love Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, so Mr. Villeneuve has my trust. It’s only the “only in theaters” tag at the end that makes me sad. It’s unimaginable to me that a Dune movie might exist and I wouldn’t go see it in the theaters; but if the world keeps going in the direction it’s in, that might very likely be the case…
Here’s another spectacular trailer, for Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7:
Wow. Could this film be more relevant?? I can’t wait for this one and I’m delighted that it’ll be on Netflix (rather than only in theaters) next month.
I wish I was as excited for the trailer for Star Trek: Discovery season three:
That’s a solid trailer. It looks gorgeous, and I like this cast. But I am so down on modern Star Trek I can’t muster up too much excitement for this. I’d love to be proven wrong. We’ll see.
Sacha Baron Cohen was great in the above trailer for The Trial of the Chicago 7, and now in related news, word has leaked out that Mr. Cohen has apparently secretly shot a sequel to Borat! I cannot wait to see what he’s cooked up. (I wonder if this is connected to Mr. Cohen’s recent prank of Rudy Giuliani??)
E.W. has a fascinating look at the first, failed pilot that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss made for Game of Thrones. This is an excerpt from the upcoming book Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon: Game of Thrones and the Untold Story of the Epic Series. It’s an oral history of Game of Thrones by James Hibberd, and I bet it’ll be an interesting read.
WOW, this is a surprise — after previously renewing Stumptown for season two back in May, ABC has cancelled the show, citing concerns and delays related to COVID. I enjoyed the first season of Stumptown and I was under the impression the show did well in the ratings, so this is a shock and a disappointment.
Click here to read an interesting interview with Noah Hawley, in which he shares fascinating tidbits on Fargo season 4, Lucy in the Sky (his feature film debut starring Natalie Portman which flopped, but which I’m still interested in finding the time to watch), and his Star Trek film proposal which was recently put on hold by the new head of Paramount.
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